Principal Software Architect

AT&T • Plano, TX

2d • $174,100 - $261,100 • Onsite

About The Position

Join AT&T and help shape the communications and technology platforms that connect customers, employees, and business capabilities at scale. The Technology Services organization advances information technology performance by delivering secure, reliable, and efficient solutions that improve business outcomes and end user experience. In this role, you will translate business strategy into practical, scalable, and operable technology designs while partnering across product, engineering, security, infrastructure, operations, and executive stakeholders. When you step into a career with AT&T, you will not just imagine the future, you will help create it.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing, architecting, and delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions.
• Strong hands-on background in software engineering, enterprise applications, APIs, cloud platforms, integration patterns, and modern delivery practices.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements, strategic priorities, and operational constraints into solution architecture and execution guidance.
• Experience defining target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, reference patterns, sequence flows, deployment views, data flows, and architecture decision records.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, identity, access management, data protection, resilience, regulatory considerations, and auditability.
• Experience with highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, observable, and supportable systems in mission-critical environments.
• Ability to lead architecture reviews, challenge assumptions, evaluate design tradeoffs, and guide teams through complex technical decisions.
• Proven ability to work across business, product, engineering, operations, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and vendor stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
• Strong leadership presence, mentoring capability, and ability to influence outcomes without direct authority.

Nice To Haves

• Experience architecting enterprise platforms in Fortune 500 or similarly large, complex environments.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, hybrid cloud platforms, microservices, API management, event-driven architecture, and platform modernization.
• Knowledge of architecture governance methods such as reference architectures, architecture review boards, reusable standards, and architecture decision records.
• Experience with observability, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, resiliency engineering, and production support models.
• Industry certifications or formal training in cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, security architecture, or related technology disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical authority responsible for defining solution architecture, design standards, integration patterns, and technology direction for complex enterprise platforms.
• Connect business needs to secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable technology solutions while guiding teams through delivery, governance, and operational readiness.
• Convert business objectives, customer experience needs, operational constraints, and compliance requirements into clear solution architecture decisions.
• Lead end-to-end architecture across applications, APIs, data, cloud platforms, integrations, security, observability, and operations.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, integration patterns, design standards, architecture decision records, and roadmaps that improve consistency across teams.
• Architect secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective enterprise solutions that support mission-critical applications and business capabilities.
• Guide API strategy, service boundaries, event-driven patterns, data flows, system interactions, and platform integration across complex ecosystems.
• Partner with product, engineering, infrastructure, operations, cybersecurity, vendors, and business stakeholders to align technology decisions with enterprise priorities.
• Provide architecture governance through design reviews, risk assessments, tradeoff analysis, technology selection, and delivery checkpoints.
• Drive operational excellence by embedding availability, reliability, performance, disaster recovery, monitoring, incident readiness, and supportability into designs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, modernization opportunities, automation capabilities, and technical debt reduction strategies with a practical business lens.
• Mentor architects and engineers, influence technical direction without relying on formal authority, and build shared confidence around complex architecture decisions.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed